Sentences with phrase «biblical values of»

Above all, he urges that this discussion take place with sensitivity and respect for the biblical values of indiscriminate hospitality, love, acceptance, forgiveness, and mercy.

It is an opportunity to experiment with the biblical values of hospitality, community and celebration instead of simply settling for affluence, individualism and status.

@truthbetold, well you should be called ignoranceinplainview, but anyway, Hitler was a Christian, yes a Christian... adhering to biblical values of massmurder.

Not exact matches

The fund tries to find companies which the fund manager believes to line - up with «biblical values» and even has a proprietary scoring system which measures a company's level of participation in abortion, gambling, alcohol, pornography, «the LGBT lifestyle,» just to name some of the big topics.

And I would much rather have someone in office who is not a biblical Christian but holds biblical values than a man who claims to be a Christian but who supports the values of the devil (i.e., Obama).

Even patriarchy's deepest plots have not wholly» silenced women in the biblical tradition, nor does our knowledge of these infamous «proceedings» have to cancel other values of Scripture for us.

I am saying that whether one believes we are under the law or under grace... there is still no biblical mandate of sexual abstinence outside of marriage unless one is a woman and the property of a man whose property value goes down once she is no longer a virgin.

In the biblical exegesis of the early Church the method had a real value.

Historical events — a bloody Civil War — forced us to look more closely at how exactly the Bible talks not only about slavery but the biblical meaning and value of a human being.

Another good book is Handbook of Biblical Social Values.

Now, today's example comes from the leader of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, which I (and many others) consider to be a mainstream expression of complementarian values.

From what I understand, evangelicals also value the biblical witness to the ministry of Jesus and bringing people closer to relationship with God.

If there is a divide then, it is not between those who value the Bible and those who do not, but between those who believe the phrase «biblical womanhood» belongs exclusively to a complementarian view of gender and those who think there's more to it than that.

It is fascinating in itself; it throws light on every portion of the Bible; it clears up obscurities, explaining what is else inexplicable; it distinguishes the minor detours from the major highways of Biblical thought; it gives their true value to primitive concepts, the early, blazed trails leading out to great issues; and, in the end, it makes of the Bible a coherent whole, understood, as everything has to be understood, in terms of its origins and growth.

«Liberty and justice for all,» marvel at the diversity of creation, welcome for one another: these, alas, are true biblical values.

Science and natural history as we know them simply did not exist, even though they owe a debt to the positive value given to space, time, matter and history by the biblical affirmation of creation.

Biblical values were not only taught to me by my mother; she lived them out every day of her life.

With this in mind Christians rightly turn to biblical authors who go beyond stewardship to stress a just treatment of animals; to Orthodox traditions with their emphases on a sacramental understanding of nature; and to classical, Western writers such as Irenacus, the later Augustine, Francis of Assisi, and the Rhineland mystics who stress the value of creation as a whole.

We are also talking about repentance among evangelicals, dealing with their rejection of genuinely biblical values upheld by their theological opponents.

Can they develop theologies of ecology that affirm the intrinsic value of all life, as do the deep ecologists and most others within environmental philosophy, and that also affirm the care of a compassionate God for the poor and oppressed, as do prophetic biblical traditions?

We also need a repentance among evangelicals, dealing with their rejection of genuinely biblical values upheld by their theological opponents.

We are called to be light and salt, and one way to do this is to stand up and speak out FOR BIBLICAL VALUES and against sin... yes, of course we should be preaching / teaching / living God's «theology of marriage» in our own marriages...... but God has clearly defined marriage as between one man and one woman, and therefore, when our government says it's otherwise, we should be light and salt and speak up, and vote accordingly.

Political Theology and Ethics (Fortress, 1984), and Walter Harrelson, who in The Ten Commandments and Human Rights (Fortress, 1980) embraced the Universal Declaration as a modern statement of biblical values.

Furthermore, much like John the Baptist, Jesus was critical of some of King Herod, and I believe that if Jesus has been given the opportunity to vote for a new king, Jesus would have voted for someone who would do a better job of obeying God's law, upholding biblical values, and protecting the innocent and weak.

The accent in appropriation should perhaps fall much more on the fundamental values in biblical ethics than on the specific moral norms and directives that we meet on the surface level of the text.

Ethicists must look not only at the Israelite context but also at the moral values of the surrounding culture or cultures on any given moral point, for often the biblical position is taken in direct response to some contrary moral behavior.

Other feminists, more critical of the Bible itself, have attempted to expose and analyze the patriarchal elements in the biblical text in order to show how the patriarchal values can be separated from the essentially liberating values that form its primary message.

Because we can not directly observe the behavior of biblical people or interview them about their moral values and principles, it is all the more important to study the biblical forms of moral discourse — the many ways in which these values and judgments are expressed.

Finally, at the very heart of biblical ethics lie the fundamental values that infuse moral conduct and principles.

New loyalties are emerging as such insights are combined with the values young evangelicals find in the biblical interpretations of William Stringfellow, Jacques Ellul, John Howard Yoder, Dale Brown and others who do not share the «inerrancy» assumption.

If Obama responds that sin is something doesn't align with his values, he speaks from not a Biblical view but rather a demonstration of «how man makes the Bible fit his world».

I wanted to learn and to teach a method of publically reading scripture, for example, that respected the intrinsic value of studying biblical texts while enhancing their communicative value in worship.

Churches and organizations may start with lofty ideals, biblical values, and Gospel - related goals, but as soon as the organization or church files its 501 (c) 3, the primary goal of the organization changes to securing and maintaining its existence.

Jim Wallis of the Sojourners community is no longer a voice crying in the wilderness when it comes to questioning the Republican monopoly on biblical values.

A number of specific values emerge from this biblical view.

And this raises the troubling question about the environmental value of biblical revelation (not to mention that of other religious traditions).

The Biblical writers do not understand social ethics in terms of one or the other of these human values, but in terms of the nature and activity of God who demonstrated their interconnectedness and indissolubility.

Even so, I found Hartshorne's work to be highly suggestive for unfolding the distinctively Christian vision of God, perhaps because his own value assumptions have been significantly conditioned by the impact of biblical faith on Western thinking about God.

Both the biblical and philosophical humanisms that emerged in the first and second centuries C.E. were fostered by and responded to two enormous social changes: new discrepancies of status (the same person could occupy more than one role in a pluralistic and mobile society), and the downward mobility of values.

I can see positive value in the fact that the biblical God is not the Unmoved Mover of Greek philosophy, that God is an involved God, working God's purpose out in a real world filled with real people.

The biblical sense of honor does not imply self - denial, stooping low and compromising your own beliefs, values and ideas for the sake of winning another brother or sister.

The clearest example of how little biblical criticism has been value - free is provided by Morton Smith in a statement which is exceptional only for its candor, not its convictions.

«The foundation of our business has been, and will continue to be strong values, and honoring the Lord in a manner consistent with biblical principles,» a statement on the Hobby Lobby website reads, adding that one outgrowth of that is the store is closed on Sundays to give its employees a day of rest.

Part 2 is a discussion of the way values often believed to be «God - given and biblical» are related to the values of the American Dream.

Eliezer Berkovits in Faith After the Holocaust advances a similar view as a central motif of Judeo - biblical faith: «Man alone can create value; God is value.

More importantly, it is the primary conveyor of a consumer culture whose values system is radically dissonant from biblical faith.

Neither Alt nor Albright was prepared to take the biblical account of Israel's origins and early history entirely at face value, yet both saw it as a rich source of historical information.

I think most of us can all agree that homosexuality and abortion are sin according to the Bible but when we decide to put people in power who are willing to evict people from houses and refuse to serve them at restaurants because of their orientation and boldly proclaim pro-life values but want to leave these children left at the border out to dry we do evil in the name of biblical truth.

But if the world is to be saved from the demonic corruptions of these values, he contended, it will need a revival of biblical religion to accomplish this saving work.

«Energy decisions must be based... on values concerning the future of the world which human beings wish to inhabit... For Christians, the ultimate objectives of society are based on the biblical witness to creation, redemption, stewardship, justice and hope.»